Black Metal as an excuse

I wonder who tipped the police off regarding Paul’s Place having a black metal gig on New Year’s Eve…I’ve never been there, but I’ve always known Paul’s Place to be a pretty clean, healthy hangout for supporters of indie music, a stepping stone for indie musicians to get heard, a place for songwriters’ rounds and more. The sudden raid and the non legible accusations published all over the media about the event being illegal and black metal etc is like a stain that will never come off over the local indie music scene. It was a sad day indeed.

Personally, I don’t support hard core black metal, for it’s satanic elements, but those bands that performed in Paul’s Place were involved in nothing like that. What’s more infuriating was how they were arrested without a chance for legal advice before being thrusted in front of the media. The mainstream papers even continue to use the term black metal to label all of them without first doing some research. Is this what our media has become…it’s become increasingly hard to read the papers without thinking twice, everything seems like a coverup story, a made up tale, a gossip column nowadays.

I am most sympathetic to my indie musician friends, just one raid like that, has somehow caused the future to be bleak, all those years of working for it, and it is not easy to even try to be heard in Malaysia at all. What will happen to Paul’s Place? Hope there would be some truth unveiled out of this instead of another shameful coverup.

Read the truth that happened here